Ruins of the sea-facing side of Fort Prinzenstein in Ghana. Without urgent action, it is predicted that the former slaveholding depot could be lost to sea erosion within decades. (Karen Attiah/The ...

For 21 years, Fort Prinzenstein's caretaker James Ocloo Akorli has watched the Gulf of Guinea's tempestuous waters eat away at both his livelihood and his heritage. The 18th century Danish citadel, ...

The salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana's Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved Africans before their journey across the Atlantic.

Rising seas, storm surges erode Ghana's slave forts Country losing two metres of coastline every year World Heritage forts, castles, a key tourist attraction KETA, Ghana, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters ...